Sword Shadows: The Record of Heaven’s Bane

Lin Yuan was once a prodigiously gifted young man of the Lin family, but after his father’s death, he became a target of his clan’s bullying. On the verge of adulthood, he overcame obstacle after obstacle to join the Yunsong Branch of the Kongling Sect. He thought a new path to immortality was opening before him, but after uncovering a conspiracy involving the branch’s food, he was framed by the branch master and a squad captain. His cultivation was crippled, and he was cast out of the sect.

At the lowest point of his life, Lin Yuan endured one near-death ordeal after another as a rogue cultivator. Fueled by hatred, he trained bitterly for ten years and reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Armed with the Asura Divine Spear, he returned to the Kongling Sect and killed the branch master, but his quest for revenge gradually led him down the demonic path. When the mysterious voice of the Asura God rang in his ears, he obtained the Asura God’s legacy in the Infernal Lava Pits and sought to find a balance between slaughter and the righteous path.

But undercurrents churned through the cultivation world. The remnant soul of an ancient Demon Emperor was on the verge of awakening, while his old enemies joined forces with a mysterious organization in an attempt to overthrow the world. Lin Yuan had no choice but to set aside his personal vendettas and reconcile with the Kongling Sect. The two factions joined hands to fight their common foe. He transformed the demonic path with the power of the Asura and protected all living beings with the might of his divine spear. Through trials of blood and fire, the bullied boy became a legend that shook heaven and earth, writing a cultivation myth of stopping killing with killing and answering violence with violence.